Dick... see if you like this idea. The self-proclaim insiders-only club Power 5
Conferences should keep all of the transfer rules, but every student athlete in
these Power 5 group can transfer to the lesser schools and NOT have to sit out.

I've said it before, I can't wait to have Ammon back in Thunderbird
red. Why he ever transferred to BYU is beyond me. There is no way he was going
to start there. Not with all the QB's they always have coming in. Now
he'll most likely start and help us get to more playoff games. Looking
forward to a great year in Cedar.

The NCAA had to create a by-law because a certain team was contacting athletes
while they were on their missions and not allowing other schools to contact
them. So I don't think we can really include one of the QB's listed in
the article, he really didn't transfer, he was recruited, oh the life of
Riley!

I think time will tell how these QBs will pan out. If I felt like I had enough
talent to play at the next level (which I can't even imagine what that
would be like), I don't think it would benefit me sitting behind a starter.
I too would transfer. I look at BYU and Utah and how many QBs they have and I
don't think I'd stick around unless I had a serious chance and they
were developing me.

Great point. When the university of utah was busy recruiting jake
murphy while he was on his mission it was obvious something needed to be
changed. Of course the murphies admitted when they said in an interview in this
very paper that dale picked jake up from the airport and drove him straight up
to the university of utah to meet with kyle whittingham who was waiting for him
there.

What an incredible admission of guilt and aknowledgment of
hwo the univeristy of utah works.

I know BYU has a great online program, but it feels weird to have kids that are
enrolled at other universities taking online classes from BYU for graduation
credit, especially athletes. This isn't a small problem, I understand a
lot of people are doing it. It has the potential to be a conflict of interest.
While I have nothing against educating youth, something needs to be done if you
enrolled somewhere else to limit BYU's online classes to non-credit only.

Completely false about Riley. Everyone in his family and his
Logan High coaching staff knew that he was going to go to BYU post-mission. I
heard it from Coach Anderson days after he left. No one at BYU recruited that
missionary. His dad was the facilitator.

@ evansrichdm

Football wasn't the only reason Ammon chose to go to BYU, though a big
part. He gave it his best to beat out Taysom but fell short --> Plan B.
Riley N. saw something that attracted him to BYU as well.

Reid didn't last too long after trying that desperate
strategy. I'm not sure there is a program out there that uses negative
recruiting tactics as extensive as Utah does when it talks to a BYU/Utah
recruit. Kwitt is a specialist. Don't throw stones, sir.

Hey Dick. I would love you to investigate and do an article to educate the
readers how BYU is making it difficult for mormon athletes to be recruited
because of the transfer issue. Coaches across the country won't recruit
Mormons for fear that they will put all their efforts and money recruiting a
mormon then have them want to go to BYU after the mission. BYU makes the walk
on and transfer so easy and some coaches at BYU find grey areas to contact the
missionaries. a coach at ASU, who is also Mormon has stated he won't
recruit anyone BYU show an interest in for this very reason. How about an
article on this subject.

"Of course the murphies admitted when they said in an
interview in this very paper that dale picked jake up from the airport and drove
him straight up to the university of utah to meet with kyle whittingham."

That sounded made up. So I checked.

That Doug Robinson
article you were referencing ultimately said, "Because the Utes had not
recruited Jake, they were able to offer him a scholarship in the fall. Upon
returning from his mission, Jake, accompanied by his father, drove straight to a
Ute practice session to observe, and that was that."

[re:
"Doug Robinson: Utah turns out to be the right fit for Jake Murphy",
Saturday, Aug. 20 2011]

Nowhere in that article did it state that
they drove straight to the U "from the airport", and nowhere in that
article did it state that the met immediately with Kyle Whittingham. And
furthermore, it was very specific when it said, "Because the Utes had NOT
recruited Jake..." [emphasis mine].

So let me get this straight, you think that because athletes
want to transfer to BYU after their missions it is somehow BYU's fault? And
you think BYU is making it difficult for other schools to recruit Mormons how?
What is it BYU does that makes it "difficult"?

How about you
provide us with support for that claim?

Also do you really think
other schools make it hard for kids that want to transfer or walk on at their
schools but BYU alone makes those things "easy"?

Really that
was one of the more senseless posts I have ever read on here.

I
think your bitterness stems from the fact so many kids that have gone on
missions do want to transfer to BYU when they return. This is generally because
they have changed as an individual while they were gone and if I had my guess
most of them probably think it is the best place for them to find a wife more
than any other factor but many probably want the BYU lifestyle as well. Nothing
improper on BYU's part there, it is just desirable for those kids.

"Administrators put a lot of pressure on college coaches
to recruit game changing athletes...Roger Reid."

What does that
have to do with kids tranfering after their missions unless you are insinuating
that the university of utah is pressuring their coaches to recruit missionaries
that already committed to other schools?

I don't recall Roger
Reid having ever done that, can you give us an example of when he did?